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REMARKS 



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MANNERS tlie cafe in all nations from 



all times. As long as the chiefs cf 



thefe iflanders were few, the reft of the nation, preferved a kind of 



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refped for thefe leaders, who then it feems,. were the heroes and 

 beft warriors of the nation. But opulence,,, the fertility of foil 



d climate 



d 



dlenefs at 



lafl 



creafed the race of chiefs to 



fuch a decree, that 



wife 



of the nation, the g 



chiefs 



of the provin 



d the whole nation itfelf, 



Id not but be 



alarmed at their too great number, and the difturbances which 

 were doubtlefs too often. made by an idle, athletic,, and numerous 



fpedl which the reft of the nation ftill had 



ftrength of thefe drones. 



fet of men 



The 



the great bodily 



paired by labour, and daily inflamed 



for their chiefs,, and 



whofe force was unii^ 



a preternatural indulge 



land, made it more and more difficult to quell the riots of thefe 



r 



choiceft fruit, and the fat 



the 



turbulent men. 



The 



marrie 



ied women have in. all thefe ifles a 



g 



refped: 



fhewn to them 



d their infl 



g 



all 



public and private affairs 

 born, the father in a cei 



and as foon as the heir of a family is 



in a certain manner lofes his importance 

 two eircumftances made young men of rank and property 



Thef( 



marriage 

 influence 



fenfuality 



and as they felt the ftrong 



of 



averfe to 

 nder the 



of a powerful fun 



they 



ndeavoured to gratify the 



fuch 



a manner 



was ealy and moft obvious 3 and 



the other fex was excited by the fame caufes to 



dulg 



len^ 



felvee 



